Sentence examples for with a dim from inspiring English sources

The walk ends with a dim sum lunch.

So look forward to a tight-fisted world leadership with a dim view of history.

More than just cutbacks have left many Angelenos with a dim view of their paper.

Peter Farmer's Edwardian designs lack light and air, with a dim, heavy quality to sets and costumes.

He surveyed boxes and suitcases, fingered the electric drill, tapped on the wine barrel, which echoed with a dim hollowness.

Here and there, beside the prestigious wardrobes, dangling bulbs sizzle with a dim light against the falling darkness.

(A coal chute, for those too young to remember, was a hole under the sidewalk with a dim-glass-and-iron lid).

The all-day event, beginning at 10 a.m. with a dim-sum breakfast, features three films from China -- "All About My Stepmother," "Postman in the Mountains" and "Saga of Mulan" -- with question-and-answer sessions after each screening.

Then, in January 1999, came "The PJs," a fast-moving animated comedy set in the projects (the "PJs" of the title), with a dim-bulb building superintendent as its hero and a supporting cast that includes a Haitian voodoo priestess and a crackhead who lives in a cardboard box.

He compares it to lighting a room gradually with a dimmer switch.

Its monitor even comes with a dimmer to soften the screen's brightness after dark.